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Post by okla on Jan 3, 2012 9:13:36 GMT 8
Hey Chad....I did some Googling and came up with the following..."Corregidor - The Treasure Island of WW 2" - Edward Michael-1999. According to this source this event or something very similar did happen. Now, the problem is, being a klutz as far as being computer literate, I can't re-locate it on the web. I got sidetracked watching the bowl games and when I came back to the problem at hand, I was at a loss attempting to relocate my "find". I will try tomorrow to hit the mother lode again. It is hidden in one of the sites dealing with Frank Fenno and his Naval career from Annapolis on thru retirement from the service. Maybe, by trial and error I can pick up on it again. Cheers.
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Post by EXO on Jan 3, 2012 19:46:52 GMT 8
Okla, Ed Michaud began as a regular contributor to our Corregidor Then and Now website in 1999 and submitted several articles, including the one you mentioned, which is at : corregidor.org/chs_trident/trident_01.htmYou'll find links to more of his articles at: corregidor.org/chs_trident/ballast_03.htmBecause there are people "out there" who take gold stories very seriously, Ed and I agreed to the approach that we must discourage there being any "treasure still on Corregidor" stories. Hence, our approach was that while Corregidor Island was indeed at one time a temporary depository of fabulous wealth, those days are long gone and that his readers should enjoy the stories for what they are – STORIES. Ed sure does spin a good sailor's yarn. Ed is the only person I have heard from who claims to have actually dived on the wrecks of Corregidor, specifically those in the area between Corregidor and Caballo, where the silver barge was sunk. How he managed to do this, I couldn't get the specific details, save to say that it was a long time ago, "in the days when anything could happen." What I found most interesting about Capt. Fenno is that he made 32 torpedo attacks, firing 85 torpedoes, including 34 hits, 5 confirmed premature detonations, 5 confirmed duds, and 25 suspected duds. The high rate of torpedo failures is scandalous, a Navy scandal which can be easily overlooked by blaming General MacArthur for everything. And believe me, there are Navy types who do. I wish you and yours a Happy New Year, and I hope that these stories will warm your cockles, as I hear that cockles are getting very cold in the mid-west at the moment and are in need of a good warming. You are allowed eggnog aren't you?
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Post by okla on Jan 3, 2012 22:35:46 GMT 8
Hey EXO...Thanks for listing the link. Saved me from "groping" for my misplaced Fenno info. Yes, I am allowed Egg Nog, but I have left the Nog out of the equation since 1985. When the goin' gets tough, the tough get goin', or some such drivel. Controlling high blood pressure takes precedence in my case. Cheers and a Happy New Year to you and many thanks for creating and maintaining this forum. It is a very large and important part of my day.
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Post by chadhill on Jan 14, 2012 11:48:58 GMT 8
Gold bars in the act of being handed over to crewmen of the Detroit. Sea looks pretty smooth, surely no one would have slipped and dropped one between the two vessels! (I wonder if this is where the one bar began its journey to the galley?) Looks like the smoking light was lit, too... From "Battle Report, Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea", 1944.
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Post by okla on Jan 14, 2012 22:04:13 GMT 8
Hey Chad....I wonder what the function of those two sailors (one with only his leg showing) clad in "whites" might be. The dungaree gobs seem to be "turning to" in good fashion and the Officers and Chief (is that a cigar or pipe in his mouth? ) have everything moving along in good order, but those two sight seers act like tourists. It's no wonder that the Detroit guys are grinning. The word is probably already out that they are going home, at least long enough to deliver the bullion. Those three submariners have pretty nice growths of facial hair, methinks. Cheers.
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Post by chadhill on Jan 15, 2012 9:54:52 GMT 8
Okla I'll bet those two sailors in whites are dressed for special liberty and will be the first ones off the sub when it pulls in. During my days they had similar recognition for "sailor of the week" or such, and my hunch is that these guys did a good deed somewhere and are about to be rewarded for it.
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Post by okla on Jan 15, 2012 10:21:27 GMT 8
Hey Chad....Maybe they found the missing "brick". They will shortly leave their boat and proceed to the New Congress Hotel to stand in line. Cheers.
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Post by The Phantom on Jan 18, 2012 5:43:04 GMT 8
Myth, legend or true...............
U.S. Army Air Corps planes were landing on Corregidor in early 1945 during the retaking?
Was it on Kindley Field on the Tail?
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Post by EXO on Jan 18, 2012 8:21:07 GMT 8
I cannot locate it right now ( is there a computer 'buzz word' for "big hard disk, bad human memory" yet?) , but somewhere I have put an image on the site, a close examination of which shows three small Piper Cubs parked on Topside. Yes, on what had, days before, been the Landing Field "A." It seemed to me that they had flown in for the flag raising by MacArthur.
I have heard of comments about the 462nd using an L-4 spotter for their artillery, and some medical evacs to Mariveles though have not found any comments about the first date at which "A" Field was cleared for use as an aircraft landing field, but 2 March is the earliest I have seen documentary proof for.
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Post by The Phantom on Mar 9, 2012 22:40:33 GMT 8
True / false / Who knows?
It is still possible to trace the old route, on foot, of the original Cable car system that was built on Corregidor (1904?) to bring supplies etc. from Engineer's Ravine to Topside.
There is still "concrete" evidence of its former path.........in what location?
A large portion of its route is still visible today but used for.......
Are there any of the original Cable system support buildings still in existence? Did they serve duel purposes?
Where are they?
Which current destroyed pr-war building is built right across it's former path?
What was the terminus on Topside and in Engineer's ravine for the cable system and what exists today on it's former start and stopping points?
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